Division I Coaches Poll for April 17, 2017

By IWLCA Admin, 04/17/17, 1:00PM EDT

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April 17, 2017

2017 IWLCA Division I Coaches Poll – April 17, 2017

The top team in this week’s IWLCA Division I Coaches Poll is no surprise, as Maryland (15-0) swept all 20 first-place votes to lock up the number one ranking. There was a shake up in the top ten, as Syracuse (12-4) knocked off North Carolina (12-2) last week to jump five spots and land at #7. Florida (12-2) and UNC switched spots at numbers two and three, and Stony Brook and Penn State stayed put in the fourth and fifth spots. Princeton (10-2) moved up to #6, and Southern California (12-3) moved up to eighth. There was also some movement in the back half of the poll, as #14 Virginia (9-7), #15 Northwestern (8-7), # 16 James Madison (10-5), and #18 Boston College (11-5), all inched up a spot this week. Albany (9-4) and Johns Hopkins (9-5) are now receiving votes in the poll.

This week’s top twenty action starts Tuesday, when #12 Cornell visits Syracuse (#7), and continues with an Ivy clash on Wednesday as Penn (#10) welcomes #6 Princeton to campus. Penn State (#5) faces top-ranked Maryland on Thursday, and #14 Virginia plays host to Virginia Tech (#19) on Friday. The weekend’s games include #11 Notre Dame traveling to Chestnut Hill to face Boston College (#18), Princeton (#6) visiting #12 Cornell, and #3 North Carolina squaring off with #20 Duke.

Rank

Institution

Points

FPV

Record

Last Week

1

Maryland

400

20

15-0

1

2

Florida

375

13-2

3

3

North Carolina

348

12-2

2

4

Stony Brook

346

13-1

4

5

Penn State

327

14-1

5

6

Princeton

290

10-2

7

7

Syracuse

265

12-4

12

8

Southern California

254

12-3

T-9

9

Colorado

238

13-2

6

10

Penn

234

10-2

T-9

11

Notre Dame

192

11-5

11

12

Cornell

190

10-2

8

13

Denver

147

12-2

T-13

14

Virginia

128

9-7

15

15

Northwestern

126

8-7

16

16

James Madison

98

10-5

17

17

Towson

87

9-5

T-13

18

Boston College

50

11-5

19

19

Virginia Tech

44

11-6

18

20

Duke

26

7-7

20

RV

Albany

9-4

NR

RV

Johns Hopkins

9-5

NR

The next regular season poll for the 2017 season will be published on April 24.